Simultaneous Geotail and Wind observations of reconnection at the subsolar and tail flank magnetopause

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Phan, T D ^a   Hasegawa, H ^b   Fujimoto, M ^b   Oieroset, M ^a   Mukai, T ^b   Lin, R P ^a   Paterson, W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MAGNETOPLASMA; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; SUBSOLAR MAGNETOPAUSE; TAIL FLANK MAGNETOPAUSE;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; JET; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; MAGNETOPAUSE;

EID: 33745700842     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL025756     Document Type: Article

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